DOMNode to DOMElement in php

Question

I want to convert a DOMNode object from a call to getElementsByTagName() to a DOMElement in order to access methods like getElements

Answer 1

You don't need to do any explicit typecasting, just check if your DOMNode object has a nodeType of XML_ELEMENT_NODE.

PHP will be perfectly happy with this.

If you use PHPLint to check your code you will notice that PHPLint complains about using getElementsByTagName on a DOMNode object. To get around this you need to jump through the following hoop:

/*.object.*/ $obj = $node;
$element = /*.(DOMElement).*/ $obj;

Then you will have a $element variable of the correct type and no complaints from PHPLint.